"one cause or another" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in an expression of uncertainty or ambiguity to suggest that there are multiple possible explanations or reasons for something. Example: "I'm not sure why she left the company. It could have been due to one cause or another – maybe she found a better job offer, or maybe she had personal reasons."
Between the museum openings and the ballet openings, to say nothing of those persistent store openings -- and let's not forget the private dinners and the galas on behalf of one cause or another -- there seems to be enormous demand at the moment for evening clothes.
Seventh Avenue was way ahead of the rest of the philanthropic pack when it came to AIDS-related causes, and it seems that every other weekend in New York and Los Angeles a sample sale to benefit one cause or another is going on.
I'll be the first to call myself out -- I know for a fact that I've been guilty of jumping on Facebook and claiming to be an ally to one cause or another, as have most of my friends as well.
"It happened that a number of old people I had known as a child in Edinburgh were dying from one cause or another," Muriel Spark recalled in 1960, "and on my visits to Edinburgh I sometimes accompanied my mother to see them in hospital.
Often though, she doesn't have time - she's up in London for one cause or another.
The empty Frappuccino bottles, used pencils and fliers fighting desperately for one cause or another lay strewn across the warped wood tables.
Yet his images of hooded torture victims transcend any one cause or crime.
Listen, there is not just one cause or one magical solution to the problem.
It 's a clearinghouse of information rather than one cause or one mission.
In fact Joseph Kennedy's sons, like himself, were spoiled, driven, ulcer-prone and casually libidinous, regularly dedicated to one good cause or another so long as everybody got laid on time.
Not everyone agrees with the dire assessment, including artists who continually offer their work for one worthy cause or another.
